Spooky Halloween Book Tag

Last updated on 13 February 2023

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Nearly time for spooky season! About time we did a Halloween Book Tag!

A book tag is a list of questions, usually around a certain topic or theme, which gives way to different answers depending on who is answering them. Book bloggers and Booktubers often create these book tags and share their answers with their readers, so that’s what we’re doing today: the Halloween Book Tag!*

Let’s get into it (and I’d love to know what your answers would be! Drop them in the comments!).

Favourite scary must-read for Halloween?

Okay so I realise we’re doing a Halloween Book Tag but I’m not actually in super scary books! But I have read some great Halloween-esque books over the years. One that I will read every year in October now is Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks. It’s not scary, but it is set in a pumpkin patch at Halloween time and it’s wonderful. I highly recommend this graphic novel if you haven’t read it already.

Scariest book cover?

Anything with a clown on it (IT by Stephen King, I’m looking at you) would creep me out to no end. But I don’t own that many super scary books. I do really like the cover of Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall, and that creepy-woods vibe it has going on.

If you could go Trick-or-Treating with any author, who would you go with?

Oh Leigh Bardugo or VE Schwab, for sure! They both write great monsters and creepy characters, and I think they would be really fun to go Trick-or-Treating with.

If you could dress up as any bookish character for Halloween, who would you be?

If I went as non-creepy, it would be someone like Luna Lovegood, and if I went as a kick-butt character, then probably Delilah Bard from A Darker Shade of Magic, or Nina Zenik from Six of Crows.

If you could find anything (from any book) in your trick-or-treat stash, what would you hope it would be?

Anything from Honeydukes (Harry Potter).

In what fictional world would you like to go trick-or-treating?

I keep bringing up Harry Potter, but in a little magical town would be really fun.

What book villain would you like to not meet in a dark alley on Halloween?

Voldemort (Harry Potter), the Darkling (Shadow and Bone), Amarantha (A Court of Thorns and Roses), Astrid and Athos Dane (A Darker Shade of Magic) … to name but a few truly scary villians.

What would you rather dress up as a vampire, zombie, werewolf or Shadowhunter?

Shadowhunter, for SURE. But then a vampire. They seem a lot cleaner and less hairy or dead than the other options.

What is your favourite Halloween candy?

So we don’t really do Halloween much here in New Zealand. We do a little and each year it becomes more of a thing, but I’ve never been trick-or-treating here in NZ, nor have I had anyone come to my door. Ever. But I do love to dress up for parties and we’re hosted a couple of parties over the years. I’ve dressed up like a rag doll and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. But candy? Not a thing here.

So tell me! What would some of your answers be?

Here’s an easy copy-and-paste Halloween book tag list

Favourite scary must-read for Halloween?
Scariest book cover?
If you could go Trick-or-Treating with any author, who would you go with?
If you could dress up as any bookish character for Halloween, who would you be?
If you could find anything (from any book) in your trick-or-treat stash, what would you hope it would be?
In what fictional world would you like to go trick-or-treating?
What book villain would you like to not meet in a dark alley on Halloween?
What would you rather dress up as a vampire, zombie, werewolf or Shadowhunter?
What is your favourite Halloween candy?

*This wonderful Halloween Book Tag was created by Jane over at Blogger Books, and I also saw it on Aoife’s blog, Pretty Purple Polka Dots.